… Lung cancer surgery patients from three hospitals were administered the Short-Form 36 …
quality-of-life index (QLI) before surgery and 6 months after surgery. Preoperative, intraoperative…

… study was to evaluate QoL in lung cancer patients after open surgery. … , patients who
underwent open lung cancer surgery appeared to have a similar QoL to that of CABG patients …

… surgery on HRQOL was assessed in a prospective study of 110 patients undergoing potentially
curative lung cancer surgery … All patients completed the EORTC QLQ-C30 and LC13 lung …

… cancer patients waiting for initial surgery experience a stressful time. Study objectives were
(1) to examine the quality of life (QL) of these patients … contribute most to patients’ overall QL. …

… research on oesophageal cancer surgery has been survival, … even though oesophageal
cancer surgery is burdened with a … shown to impair the patients’ long-term quality of life (QoL) …

PURPOSE: This study was designed to compare the impact of a permanent colostomy and
sociodemographic characteristics on the quality of life of patients operated on for low rectal …

… in patients with stoma. The aim was to evaluate HRQoL in rectal cancer patients with permanent
stoma compared to patients … Overall HRQoL in patients operated for rectal cancer with …

… patients completed the validated European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer
general quality‐of life… (QLQ‐OES18) before surgery and regularly thereafter for at least 3 …

… and June 1997 and who had been referred from surgical departments at our Institute or
other Italian hospitals. Sixty two of these patients conformed to the initial selection criteria, but …

… 1, 3, 6 and 12 months after pulmonary surgery. Lung cancer surgery is well tolerated by the
majority of patients. Lobectomy patients have a more favorable physical functioning and less …